> If we can improve the way things are through capitalism, that's still better than just yelling at politicians that don't do anything.
You cannot improve this with capitalism. You can only improve this by replacing politicians who are married to a broken system through vested interests.
[+] Healthcare startup Oscar is going through the grinder: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-15/obamacare...
Most of the comparisons that people like to bring up are European countries the size and population of US states.
Sure, if you want to pretend the EU doesn't exist, and that the US doesn't already manage Medicaid on a state-by-state level, there's a significant population difference... but Germany has nearly 100M people. We have strong evidence single-payer healthcare already works with large numbers of people.